This framework is one of my own, developed at a time when I was thinking about my son’s educational needs and wanting to make sure I had a sense of the big picture there. Taking a high-level view, what does a human need to know/learn in order to thrive in their life?
Frameworks
A framework is a simplified structural model of some aspect of reality that can be used in order to quickly analyze a question or situate. All fields of human knowledge and activity use frameworks for sense making and for action.
The following is a selection of frameworks that I have found useful in my thinking at the broadest and most abstract levels about how to live well.
PERMA
Despite sterling academic credentials, University of Pennsylvania professor Martin Seligman has been unabashed in his embrace of a career pop psychology. (“‘I’m rich,’ I announced to my mother on the phone.”)
The Top Five Regrets of the Dying
As its title suggests, The Top Five Regrets of the Dying, by Australian former hospice nurse Bronnie Ware, is focused on people’s thoughts and feelings, at the end of their lives, about what might have been.